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Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
Virulence
Factors of A. a.
FACTOR ACTION
Endotoxin Bone resorption
Unknown
Bone resorption
Polyclonal
antibody Stimulates an
stimulator
inappropriate antibody
response yielding
excessive
inflammation
It can inhibit normal
cellular activity
and can cause bone resorption via endotoxin production as well as via another unknown
factor.
A polyclonal antibody stimulator causes an overreaction in immunologic
response. This amounts to the inflammatory process running amuck and causing much tissue destruction.
